Messages from Spirit: The Extraordinary Power of Oracles, Omens and Signsby Colette Baron-Reid

Messages from Spirit are received every day by ordinary people in a multitude of ways. We are made of, and surrounded by, an all-knowing Divine field of intelligence that is just waiting to guide us and give us help whenever we ask for it. We just need to learn how to enter the conversation and understand the dialogue.

• A mother receives an undeniable message of love from her deceased son
• A series of meaningful coincidences appear to save a life
• A conversation overheard between strangers delivers a life-altering personal message to a bystander
• A dream warns a woman of a wounded animal miles away
• A reading of oracle cards prepares a daughter for an impending tragedy

Extraordinary? Unusual? It’s not! Messages from Spirit are received every day by ordinary people in a multitude of ways. We are made of, and surrounded by, an all-knowing Divine field of intelligence that is just waiting to guide us and give us help whenever we ask for it. We just need to learn how to enter the conversation and understand the dialogue. So how do we ask? How do we receive and interpret the answers?

By exploring ancient methods in a modern context of connecting to the Divine, renowned intuitive counselor and best-selling author Colette Baron-Reid shows you magical, fun, and practical methods that will enable you to delve into your own dialogue with Spirit. She’ll take you on a mysterious and enlightening journey that will shake up your perspective, stir your curiosity, and prepare you for a Divine conversation that will forever change your understanding of the world around you.

Excerpt:

Messages from Spirit come to everyone. The challenge is committing to the inner work these transformative moments invite us to do. The mystical life, the active spiritual life, isn’t an easy experience. It takes courage and fortitude to maintain and nurture the link between our mortal selves and our immortal consciousness by having an active relationship with God.

It’s so easy to forget who we are and why we’re here. It’s no secret that the world is a challenging and soul-destroying place at times. And at some point, we realize that faith always needs to be an action rather than just a philosophical idea. We must be faith, not think faith. Let me explain.

We’re spiritual beings learning through human experience. Messages from Spirit are meant to enhance this, to be mystical lights illuminating our paths. Yet it’s important to know that they aren’t going to do the work for us or give us the definitive answers to everything. Rather, they point to the right questions to ask. They guide us toward self-awareness and contemplation so that we can become more fully realized and authentic beings. Spirit messages can be warnings and can also provide clarity and inspiration — they may even show us details of the future. And so they can become an essential part of our experience of connecting to all that is part of the One.

Messages from Spirit are also an important entrance into the symbolic world of another kind of knowing. They maintain the bridge that shimmers between material reality and the mystery of the Great Unseen. Even with their inherent limitations . . . oracles, omens, and signs are magical doorways that allow a glimpse into the Light. Hopefully, seeing the Light will serve to wake us up and keep us conscious of our lifelong date with destiny and purpose. At the very least, we’ll know that our presence in this life and in the greater cosmic plan really does matter.

So before embarking on a further exploration of the symbolic world — and since these ideas might still be new to you — I’d like to define some of the concepts you’ll need to know and the terms I use to describe them. (I used many of these words and ideas throughout the first part of this book, where context provided meaning; but as you begin to examine your own life, it’s important to clarify them.

The Spirit in the Sky (and Everywhere Else)

I use the term Spirit to represent the essence of what we engage in Divine dialogue, or the sacred practice of divination. It signifies the complete wisdom and potential of the One God or Source, becoming known in the manifest world and in our personal experience. Spirit is the Divine living mirror in which we can inspect ourselves. We can see where we’ve come from, who we’ve become, and where we’re heading on our journey.

There are many diverse words that you could use instead of Spirit, depending on your own belief system: the I Am Presence, the Sacred, Love, Light, Mind, Brahma, Nirvana, Cosmic Consciousness, the Great Unseen, All That Is, Infinite Higher Wisdom, or the Divine Matrix — or perhaps names used by science, such as the Field, the Quantum Field, the Submanifest Order of Being, or the Mind of Nature. Or you can use my personal favorite, which was coined by scientist and author Gary Schwartz: G.O.D., meaning Guiding-Organizing-Designing intelligence. These are just a few examples, and they’re all interchangeable.

I choose Spirit because of its mystical, poetic, and fluid quality. I prefer the language of spirituality and mysticism because I feel that it captures the human experience as an expression of the soul in an evocative and meaningful way. I see the world as I believe it’s meant to be seen — deep, complex, and rich with passion and meaning. Many years ago I heard someone say that "the All is in the small," and I’ve held on to that poetic idea because it expresses so simply what all of this is referring to.

I also like the word Spirit because it derives from the Latin root word spirare, which means "breath" or "to breathe." It’s defined in the dictionary as the "vital principle or animating force within living beings." So imagine that God has breathed life into the Universe, leaving a Divine higher intelligence in everything. This breath of God, called Spirit, is what animates the material world and permeates the entire Great Unseen that surrounds us.

This intelligent force that’s directly related to the mystery of God becomes the eternal wisdom available to everyone. We’re all capable of reaching out into Spirit because we’re created and animated by it. It keeps us connected to all of life; it shows us the details of our personal individual contracts where free will, fate, and destiny intersect.

For us to be aware of our Divine connection to all of Life through the medium of Spirit, we must awaken our consciousness and open our hearts and our capacity for compassion. And one of the ways in which we engage in this sacred conversation is through oracles.

Oracle Messages and Oracle Messengers

The word oracle comes from the Latin oraculum, rooted in the word orare, which means "to speak" or "to pray." Today, the dictionary defines oracle as "Divine message." Oracles can take one or all of three forms:

1. A person, whom I refer to as an oracle messenger

2. The message itself, which I refer to as an oracle message

3. A sacred object or tool used to interpret messages from Spirit interactively, which I refer to as oracle tools or divination tools

All of these are ways to engage in a dialogue with the Divine. Prayer and meditation are the actions required to begin the conversation.

Predictions, Potentials, and the Power of Now

It’s true that the future can be seen at times, but there can be no guarantees that you’ll get to view it the way it will really be. Such vision is a paradoxical gift, because your relationship to the future is active, not passive. If you see something positive, then the question is: What right action will help me keep on course? When something challenging or difficult is revealed, you can ask: What, if anything, can I do to change this?

More often, an oracle message or prediction speaks to the potential or probability of a situation, especially if the elements can be affected by choice. No oracle will consistently give us absolute access to the future. It’s in the "now" that we have the greatest power to progress; and by understanding the past, we see how our patterns began. How we perceive ourselves and the clarity of our intentions change the outcome of future events. Oracles, omens, and signs are most powerful when they’re used to illuminate the present, for all events must flow from the point where we can be transformed.

Profound change and self-revelation in the powerful now can alter the course of events. This happens as you become aware and awake. If you focus your query on how to become more authentic and prosperous or on how to heal your inner wounds, you automatically have a greater chance to glimpse a more abundant and peaceful experience, which in turn influences everything that is to come.

When you ask about the future and it’s made available for you to see, simply regard that as encouragement to continue with the steps needed to get there. Encouragement is a good thing, but the days to come are never guaranteed. Seeing the future doesn’t change the moment you’re in—you still need to live in each second until you arrive. Staring longingly at the destination doesn’t help you get there quicker, anyway.

So tread lightly when asking for the future to be revealed, because that may not be what’s needed or even valuable for you. With reverence, humility, and clarity of intention, you can step forward with peace in your heart, knowing that you’re asking with higher purpose.

Signs May Not Mean What You Think They Mean

Knowing the future — just standing on its own, divested from its relationship to surrounding events—can actually be confusing. I think Spirit throws us a curveball sometimes just to keep us a bit off balance and to teach us a lesson! Or sometimes what appears to be deep is shallow, and we end up saying, "Huh?" We have to be careful not to read too much into things or notice only what we want to see when we do make a connection to Spirit. Signs may seem like they mean one thing in the moment, but later on their true significance will be revealed. This is especially true when the Divine makes a connection to us spontaneously. One thing is for certain, though—Spirit is communicating with us all the time. That is a profound sign in itself.

Just remember as you journey through this book that the more you dialogue with Spirit and receive its messages, becoming more awake and alert, the more you’ll know that loving-kindness is the key to all action. In Spirit we belong; in Spirit we are One.